How to use asymptote with other formats than png

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How to use asymptote with other formats than png

robinrosenstock opened this issue 6 years ago · comments

I want to use svg generated from pp and asymptote.
But pp always append png to the filename.
How to use asymptote with other formats than png?

Robin Rosenstock commented 6 years ago

Thanks

Christophe Delord · Answer 1 · Sun Jan 28 2018 16:50:41 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Currently pp generates only PNG images. There were two options for Asymptote: PDF or other formats. The advantage of PDF is that it accepts transparency. So internally pp makes asymptote generate PDF files converted to PNG to be accepted by pandoc.
I can try to change the output format. e.g. if the format is given in the image name it will be used to generate the image (when possible).

Robin Rosenstock · Answer 2 · Sun Jan 28 2018 17:02:42 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

I can try to change the output format. e.g. if the format is given in the image name it will be used to generate the image (when possible).

yeah specify format in the image name, I think also this would be best way.

Christophe Delord · Answer 3 · Sun Jan 28 2018 23:25:28 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

I have a patch to use PNG and SVG formats. I'm wondering if SVG shouldn't become the default format for diagrams when available (files are smaller). Asymptote diagrams with transparency should be given the PNG extension explicitly.

Robin Rosenstock · Answer 4 · Mon Jan 29 2018 00:05:51 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

I'm wondering if SVG shouldn't become the default format for diagrams when available (files are smaller)

I have no problem with that...

Christophe Delord · Answer 5 · Mon Jan 29 2018 00:32:54 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

done in v. 2.3

Benct Philip Jonsson · Answer 6 · Mon Jan 29 2018 03:55:26 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Note that most (all?) LaTeX engines barf at SVG. They want PDF.

Robin Rosenstock · Answer 7 · Mon Jan 29 2018 05:52:57 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

@bpj you are correct, but when using pandoc, it automatically converts svg files to pdf, I think it is doing it with librsvg, see here.

There are not so many open vector formats and svg is propably the way to go in the web. So the svg format is the lowest common denominator for output formats I use most often: html and pdf.

Christophe Delord · Answer 8 · Thu Feb 01 2018 03:37:24 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

I have added PDF in diagram formats (pp 2.3.1). But it may not work with PlantUML. If you want PDF, you have to explicitly add the .pdf extension to image names.

Robin Rosenstock · Answer 9 · Thu Feb 01 2018 03:38:54 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

I have added PDF in diagram formats

Can you elaborate? Do you mean its the standard now?

Christophe Delord · Answer 10 · Thu Feb 01 2018 03:40:53 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

No, PDF is just one possible output format. The default format is still SVG.

Christophe Delord · Answer 11 · Sat Feb 03 2018 12:43:45 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Well I think that the default format should take the output format into account. To make a PDF document, pandoc uses LaTeX. In this case the default image format should be PDF or PNG.